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Sunday, 26 October 2025

High speed sleeper from Hong Kong to Beijing

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A few days ago I took the overnight sleeper from Hong Kong to Beijing. I have been on the old green train sleepers before in mainland China,...
Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Sigg collection at MPlus

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Since it opened in 2021, Mplus has been one of my favourite Hong Kong museums, despite being quite tricky to get to. One reason for my liki...
Friday, 19 September 2025

Doom by Niall Ferguson

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I just completed another one of my second hand books, “Doom - the politics of catastrophe” by Niall Ferguson. It is centred around the recen...
Sunday, 14 September 2025

Alfred’s Self-Teaching Adult Piano course

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  If any of you are considering learning to play the piano or electronic keyboard, I thoroughly recommend this book. It is written in a very...
Saturday, 13 September 2025

Teeline - update 1

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As you know, I have been teaching myself Teeline shorthand lately and I’m still on it. It’s been slow progress as I’m coming to the end of ...
Thursday, 4 September 2025

In praise of ….. reading books

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  In an age of social media, internet memes, gifs, tweets, wikipedia and even AI why do I still read books, especially hard copy ones? I wil...
Friday, 29 August 2025

Land’s end to John O’Groats …… by public bus

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  A few days ago, a few chaps started an epic Land’s End to John O’Groats journey by public bus (no National Express, Flixbus nor Megabus). ...